Dianna

“We tell stories about everything. We can’t escape them. It’s how we interact with each other, it’s how we keep the things we value close. It’s the fearful stories, the ones that strip the humanity from everyone but ourselves that cost us nothing to spread. It takes a lot of searching to find the true stories, the ones that reveal people’s humanity instead of crushing them beneath the weight of hatred.”
― J.A. Andrews, The Keeper Chronicles

“When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Perhaps adventures could be for ladies of a certain age, ladies who might have reached a point in their lives when they had quietly given up on the world beyond their kitchen garden as being a place for them to explore. Perhaps adventures were ready and available to anyone and everyone who was willing to take one on.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons

“But there was no defeating evil unless people had hope. There was no going forward unless folk held on to their belief that the future could be bright, that a lamp of goodness could still shine in this realm of darkness and despair. And, although it would be far easier to curl up and hide, as many of the Good Folk had done, there would never be change unless people were prepared to take risks, to step forward and fight for a better world.”
― Juliet Marillier, The Caller